Progress Report: HTML API

Glossary of Terms
Why was the HTML API introduced?
How can we use the HTML API today?
What’s in the future for the HTML API?

Working with HTML structure

The HTML Processor is being developed and tested in stages.
The HTML Processor is going to be able to add and remove tags.
The HTML Processor refuses to break HTML.

HTML Templating
Expanding access to blocks from within PHP
Rewiring WordPress internals

Summary
Following the progress
Acknowledgements

The Tag Processor was introduced into Core with 6.2, but development on the HTML API is continuing as we build a more complete system for interacting with HTML. This posts covers why the HTML API was first introduced, how to take advantage of it today, and preview what’s coming with the second phase, the HTML Processor.

This post was originally published on Make Core by Dennis Snell.

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